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Approval of Congress ties all-time low
Post Date: 2011-08-16 11:54:31 by go65
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Americans' approval of Congress tied an all-time low in a new Gallup poll released Tuesday, underscoring the sour opinion facing lawmakers during their August recess. Just 13 percent of U.S. adults said they approve of the way Congress is handling its job, tying a previous low point set in December of 2010, during the lame-duck session. Click for Full Text!
Perry's vulnerabilities with the right
Post Date: 2011-08-16 11:46:07 by buckeroo
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has taken the Republican presidential field by storm since declaring his candidacy on Saturday, winning widespread praise for his outspoken conservative positions. But Perry has served 26 years since first winning election, as a Democrat, to the Texas state House in 1984. That means he carries a record — a long record — containing a few conservative blemishes that his leading rivals in the GOP field can seize upon. Indeed, in an interview with a Des Moines radio station on Monday, Perry was deluged with questions from informed Republican voters about potential conservative heresies on his record — from his enthusiastic backing of an unsuccessful ...
Evergreen Solar files for bankruptcy, plans asset sale [Another Obama "Green Jobs" Failure]
Post Date: 2011-08-16 11:21:19 by Capitalist Eric
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Evergreen Solar Inc., the Massachusetts clean-energy company that received millions in state subsidies from the Patrick administration for an ill-fated Bay State factory, has filed for bankruptcy, listing $485.6 million in debt. Evergreen, which closed its taxpayer-supported Devens factory in March and cut 800 jobs, has been trying to rework its debt for months. The cash-strapped company announced today has sought a reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware and reached a deal with certain note holders to restructure its debt and auction off assets. Also in today’s Herald: » Michael Graham: Perry packs potential, Romney fires blanks » Dems bop President ...
Heat pops pipes nationwide; brace for higher bills
Post Date: 2011-08-16 10:11:54 by go65
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Critical water pipelines are breaking from coast to coast, triggered by this summer's record high temperatures. It's not a phenomenon or coincidence, experts say. It's a clear sign that Americans should brace for more water interruptions, accompanied by skyrocketing water bills. The heat wave of the past few weeks has burst hundreds of crucial pipes in California, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky and New York, temporarily shutting off water to countless consumers just when they needed it most. "It's one of the worst summers," said Debbie Ragan of Oklahoma City's Utilities Department. As days of 100 degree-plus temperatures bake the region, the ...
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll -- The Kenyan Falls to His Lowest Approval Index Yet
Post Date: 2011-08-16 10:03:55 by no gnu taxes
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 19% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -23 (see trends). At 19%, the number who Strongly Approve matches the lowest total yet recorded for this president. It has fallen that low only once before, on April 11 of this year. While 45% of Democrats Strongly Approve, just 4% of Republicans and 8% of unaffiliated voters share that enthusiasm. Overall, 43% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-four ...
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 44%, Democrats 37%
Post Date: 2011-08-16 09:45:21 by no gnu taxes
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Republicans have bounced back to a seven-point lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 14. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate, while 37% would choose the Democrat instead. The GOP’s lead is up five points from a week ago, the first full week survey since Congress and the president agreed on a spending cuts deal to raise the federal debt ceiling. Last week’s two-point gap was the narrowest lead Republicans had held since mid-May. Republicans have led on the Generic Congressional Ballot every week since June 2009, leading ...
THE HYPERDIMENSIONAL FAILURE OF BARACK OBAMA
Post Date: 2011-08-16 09:34:13 by no gnu taxes
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Well, those of you who know me well know that I constantly say that I am “bi-partisan,” meaning by that oft-overused phrase within American politics, that I loathe both the Dummycrooks and the Republithugs equally. Those of you who know my deep cynicism about the state of American politics and “culture” in general also know that I am loathe to comment much about it. I do not consider myself politically informed, much less in a position to comment about it. But with the recent circus – one I believe to be wholly contrived incidentally – over raising the debt ceiling of American sovereign debt, and now with even the political left casting glances askance at our ...
Jon Stewart: Media 'Pretending Ron Paul Doesn't Exist' In GOP Race (VIDEO)
Post Date: 2011-08-16 09:09:05 by Godwinson
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Jon Stewart: Media 'Pretending Ron Paul Doesn't Exist' In GOP Race (VIDEO) On Monday night's "Daily Show" Jon Stewart picked up where he left off on Thursday with the Iowa Straw Poll, this time having the results to mock. With Tea Partier Michele Bachmann taking the win, Texas Governor Rick Perry joining the race and Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty dropping out, Stewart had his plate full. But the person he spent the most time talking about is the one GOP presidential candidate almost no one's talking about: Libertarian/Republican Ron Paul. Stewart wonders why the media doesn't seem to be acknowledging that he's even in the race, despite his doing well ...
Rick Perry backed an already-climate-crusading Al Gore in '88
Post Date: 2011-08-16 07:31:58 by A K A Stone
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have forgotten a thing or two about the Al Gore presidential campaign he helped lead in 1988. In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.” But in fact, global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988 — long before his activism led to several books, a Nobel Prize and a part in an Academy Award-winning film. It was also well before the right gave him the "Mr. Ozone" nickname and talk radio heaped endless ...
Pastor Found Dead in Times Square Hotel Had Drugs
Post Date: 2011-08-16 07:00:54 by sneakypete
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A white powdery substance believed to be narcotics was discovered on the body of a 42-year old megachurch Florida pastor who was discovered dead in a Times Square hotel room, a law enforcement official said Monday. The cause of death for the Rev. Zachery Tims, Jr., who led an 8,000-member ministry in Orlando, is still pending. Courtesy of Julie Fletcher/Orlando Sentinel Rev. Zachery Tims, Jr., center, celebrates the grand opening of the New Destiny Christian Center Community Youth Recreation Facility in 2005. Mr. Tims’s body was discovered at the W Hotel in Times Square on Friday.Tims’s body was discovered Friday afternoon when a worker trying to check the minibar in his room ...
Undocumented immigrants face checks on Amtrak, Greyhound
Post Date: 2011-08-16 03:00:04 by socalv8
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As a Greyhound bus prepared to leave a small town near Atlanta, 19-year-old Azucena headed to the window seat on the last row , on her way to Miami to start school and a new life. She propped a pillow against the glass and drifted off to sleep as the bus glided down the highway toward South Florida. Around 5 a.m., Azucena, who does not want her last name used, woke up when the bus driver pulled up to the Pompano Beach bus station—one stop before her final destination. Three U.S. Border Patrol agents boarded, announcing they would be checking IDs. She lifted her head to see one agent walking directly toward her. “It kind of looked like they already knew who they were looking ...
Radical Overhaul Of Military Retirement Planned
Post Date: 2011-08-15 20:03:46 by Brian S
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(CBS News) WASHINGTON - The military retirement system has long been considered untouchable - along with Social Security and Medicare. But in these days of soaring deficits, it seems everything is a potential target for budget cutters. A Pentagon-sponsored study says military pensions are no longer untouchable - they're unaffordable. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports high-level, closely-held meetings are taking place at the Pentagon regarding a radical proposal to overhaul retirement for the nation's 1.4 million service members - a bedrock guarantee of military service. The proposal comes from an influential panel of military advisors called the ...
(Communist) Half Of Americans Believe Austerity Will Lead To Violent Unrest
Post Date: 2011-08-15 17:19:23 by Hondo68
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Gold sales increase six fold in one week Hope&Change 2013 Almost half of all Americans believe that government spending cuts will lead to civil unrest on a scale recently seen in London, according to a new survey. 48% of respondents in a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey indicated that they believe it is at least somewhat likely that if austerity measures are enacted there will be violence on the streets. According to the survey, those under 50 years of age think unrest is more likely, with a majority of 58% believing cuts will make it likely. Less Americans are convinced that tax hikes and stock market woes will trigger unrest, however, in both cases over a third still ...
The Revolution Is Underway
Post Date: 2011-08-15 17:17:07 by Capitalist Eric
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The ongoing media blackout on all things Ron Paul is somewhat curious. One blogger calls the Meet the Press crowd knuckleheaded for their omissive reporting of winners and losers. Headlines blare, "Bachmann First, Pawlenty Third!" as if, by not saying Ron Paul’s name and crediting him with his earned reward, they can create an alter-reality. Second is not first. Bachmann’s and Dr. Ron Paul’s 28.6% and 27.7%, respectively – less than a percentage apart, is a great horse race. Bachmann won by a nose, they would say. If this were the Kentucky Derby, we’d be on the edge of our seats focused entirely on Paul and Bachmann, not focusing excessively about horses ...
Father Decapitated And Dismembered Cerebral Palsy Son, 7, With A Meat Cleaver And Left His Head At Side Of Road So That The Child's Mother Would See It
Post Date: 2011-08-15 16:57:32 by Brian S
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A father has admitted to chopping his son's head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it in the roadside outside his home so that the child's mother would see it.A passing motorist saw the decapitated head of seven-year-old Jori Lirette, from Louisiana, and alerted police.Detectives later found the boy's body in a rubbish sack that had been dumped nearby.The boy's father, 30-year-old Jeremiah Lee Wright, is alleged to have confessed to decapitating his son.Jori was wheelchair bound and needed a feeding tube having been born with cerebral palsy.Wright is said to have told police that he did it because 'he'd gotten to the point where he was tired of taking care' of ...
Obama "Magical Misery Tour"
Post Date: 2011-08-15 14:29:22 by Capitalist Eric
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LITCHFIELD, N.H. -- Mitt Romney slammed President Barack Obama in advance of the president's bus tour of midwestern states Monday, derisively calling it the "Magical Misery Tour," a play on the iconic 1967 Beatles album "Magical Mystery Tour." Romney, the current national frontrunner for the GOP nomination, continued to execute his campaign strategy of hammering the president while virtually ignoring his two most salient Republican rivals for the nomination --Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. "During his Magical Misery bus tour this week, it is unlikely President Obama will speak with unemployed Americans, to near-bankrupt ...
Michele Bachmann snubs Rick Perry at Iowa Republican dinner
Post Date: 2011-08-15 10:56:48 by go65
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Michele Bachmann has angered some Republicans in Iowa by snubbing Governor Rick Perry of Texas, her new White House rival, at a party dinner, insisting on her own lighting and entering the hall "like she was Madonna". Mr Perry, who got into the 2012 race on Saturday, partly overshadowing Representative Bachmann's win at the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames, accepted an invitation to the Black Hawk County Republican Party dinner in Waterloo, Iowa last week. Once she heard the Texas governor would be attending, aides to Mrs Bachmann, who was born in Waterloo, contacted the organisers to say that she would like to speak too. This set up a joint appearance that one Iowa politician ...
Buffett: Raise Taxes on ‘Coddled’ Billionaires
Post Date: 2011-08-15 10:54:36 by Brian S
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Billionaire Warren Buffett urged Congress to raise taxes on the nation’s wealthiest individuals to help cut the U.S. budget deficit, saying it won’t inhibit investment or job growth. “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress,” the chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) wrote in an opinion article published in the New York Times. “It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.” Buffett’s advocacy of higher taxes for the “mega-rich” may reinforce President Barack Obama’s call for an end to tax breaks for corporate-jet owners. In the op-ed, ...
If Rep. Michele Bachmann is a good Christian why is she running for elective office which is against the Christian teaching that women should not have authority over men and are to keep silent? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-08-15 09:59:39 by Godwinson
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If Rep. Michele Bachmann is a good Christian why is she running for elective office which is against the Christian teaching that women should not have authority over men? "no woman [is] to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent" (1 Timothy 2:12).
Poll: Voters Still Believe Tea Party Understands Nation’s Problems Better Than Congress
Post Date: 2011-08-15 08:22:31 by CZ82
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Poll: Voters Still Believe Tea Party Understands Nation’s Problems Better Than Congress August 15, 2011 by Marcy Bonebright A protester hoists a sign at a Tea Party rally outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 6. A recent poll found that voters still have more confidence in the Tea Party than members of Congress. The mainstream media and liberal pundits may love to hate the Tea Party, but a recent poll reveals that many voters still believe the grassroots political movement understands the Nation’s problems better than members of the United States Congress. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42 percent of all likely U.S. voters believe the ...
G.O.P. on Defensive as Analysts Question Party’s Fiscal Policy
Post Date: 2011-08-14 23:56:21 by go65
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WASHINGTON — The boasts of Congressional Republicans about their cost-cutting victories are ringing hollow to some well-known economists, financial analysts and corporate leaders, including some Republicans, who are expressing increasing alarm over Washington’s new austerity and antitax orthodoxy. Enlarge This Image Win McNamee/Getty Images House Majority Leader Eric Cantor issued a defensive memo. Multimedia TimesCast | Republican Economics Graphic Members of the Bipartisan Deficit Panel Related Economix Blog: Do Congress and the White House Deserve an AA+ Rating? (August 12, 2011) Related in Opinion Editorial: Magical Unrealism (August 13, 2011) Blow: Genuflecting to the ...
Analysis: GOP has 'three-person race' after straw poll
Post Date: 2011-08-14 21:45:13 by buckeroo
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WASHINGTON — One is up, one is out, one is in, and one remains the perceived frontrunner. After a busy weekend in Iowa and South Carolina, the Republican presidential race moves forward with what looks to be a three-way contest among upstart Michele Bachmann, newcomer Rick Perry and perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney. Bachmann, a U.S. House member from Minnesota, seeks momentum after winning the Iowa GOP straw poll — a prelimimary contest that knocked former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty out of the race after a disappointing third place finish. Meanwhile, the Republican race got a new and potentially formidable candidate in Perry, the Texas governor who announced his bid ...
Low Rates May Do Little to Entice Nervous Consumers
Post Date: 2011-08-14 21:41:26 by buckeroo
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The Federal Reserve’s announcement last week that it intended to keep credit cheap for at least two more years was a clear invitation to Americans: Go out and borrow. But many economists say it will take more than low interest rates to persuade consumers, a crucial driver of the nation’s economy, to take on more debt. There are already signs that the recent stock market upheaval, turbulence in Europe and gridlock in Washington over the federal deficit have spooked consumers. On Friday, preliminary data showed that the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index had fallen this month to lower than it was in November 2008, when the country was deep in ...
Housing's Double Dip Part II: Rising Foreclosures
Post Date: 2011-08-14 21:30:05 by buckeroo
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Just as we saw a double dip in home prices, we may be seeing another surge in foreclosures. And just as the home price scenario was caused by artificial government stimulus, in the form of the home buyer tax credit juicing home sales only briefly, the foreclosure scenario was caused by real negligence, in the form of the "robo-signing" paperwork scandal. Banks and servicers stopped foreclosures entirely for a time after the malpractice was discovered, and courts delayed the process, picking through papers as foreclosures were resubmitted; that is now turning around. The system is ramping up again, and foreclosure starts are up dramatically, more than 10 percent in June from the ...
When Democrat Rick Perry Backed Al Gore
Post Date: 2011-08-14 19:55:42 by A K A Stone
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Texas governor and soon-to-be presidential candidate Rick Perry was Al Gore’s Texas state chair in 1988. Gore shared the views of his fellow southern centrists — he opposed the federal funding of abortion, supported a moment of silence in schools for prayer, approved funding of the Nicaraguan contras and was against the ban on interstate handgun sales. It was a platform a conservative West Texas Democrat like state representative Perry could stand on, and he signed up to chair the Senator’s Texas campaign… A decade later, Perry said the 1988 presidential primary election helped push him to his party switch. In the fall of 1988, he voted for Bush over his party’s ...
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